27 October 2026 Current Affairs: Headlines, GK & MCQs

It is an entry of the Concurrent List, not the State List, so both Parliament and the state legislatures can make laws on it.

Sponges are the members of phylum Porifera, a name that means "pore bearers", because their bodies are full of tiny pores called ostia.

It is a form of physical, or mechanical, weathering: the rock breaks into pieces but its chemical make-up does not change.

Statements 1 and 3 describe the Industrial Revolution correctly, but it began in Britain, not Germany. The Industrial Revolution turned largely rural, farming societies into urban ones where most people worked in factories, mines and workshops, which is what statement 1 says.

A place at 90° E is six hours ahead of Greenwich, so 10:00 a.m. GMT becomes 4:00 p.m.

This Harappan city in the Rann of Kutch, Gujarat, is known above all for its water management, with large cisterns and reservoirs in both the citadel and the lower town.

Covaxin is an inactivated virus vaccine and Sputnik V is a viral vector vaccine, but Covishield is a viral vector vaccine, not an mRNA vaccine.

The Atal Tunnel runs under the Rohtang Pass in Himachal Pradesh and cuts the road distance between Manali and Leh by about 46 km, saving four to five hours of travel.

The 42nd Constitutional Amendment Act, 1976, added the words Socialist, Secular and Integrity to the Preamble. Passed during the Emergency under Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, the 42nd Amendment is often called the "mini-Constitution" because it changed so many provisions.

The Global Goalkeeper Award is one of the Goalkeepers awards the foundation gives to leaders who advance the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

In graphite each carbon atom is joined to three others in a flat layer of hexagonal rings, like a honeycomb.

Proposed by Franco Modigliani with Richard Brumberg and Albert Ando, it holds that a person plans consumption over a whole lifetime, using available resources, the return on wealth and age.

South Arcot and Ramanathapuram lie on the Tamil Nadu coast, which gets most of its yearly rain from the retreating, or north-east, monsoon in October to December.

Aridisols are the soils of deserts, and they are poor in organic matter, so this statement about them is not correct.

Total internal reflection happens only when light inside a denser medium meets the boundary with a rarer one at an angle larger than the critical angle, and all of the light is reflected back.

Both Shvetaketu and Nachiketa are young seekers in the Upanishads whose stories show that knowledge is won by asking questions and refusing easy answers.

Article 371D deals with Andhra Pradesh and now also Telangana; the special provision for Sikkim is Article 371F. Part XXI of the Constitution contains special provisions for several states in Articles 371 to 371J. Article 371D was added by the 32nd Amendment in 1973 to give the people of Andhra…

Lactose, the sugar of milk, is a disaccharide formed when one molecule of glucose joins one molecule of galactose. Disaccharides are sugars made of two simple sugar units, or monosaccharides, linked by a glycosidic bond.

Arc volcanoes form above subduction zones at convergent plate boundaries, not at divergent ones, so statement 1 is false while 2 and 3 are true.

Insolation, the incoming solar radiation, arrives mainly as short waves centred on visible light, but the Earth's curved surface spreads it unevenly, so statement 2 is false.

The Constitution reserves seats in Panchayats for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, and it also lets Panchayats levy and collect taxes, so statement 2 is false.

These four outer planets are the gas planets, also called Jovian planets, made mostly of hydrogen, helium, ices and liquids rather than rock.

The iron stirrup gave the rider a firm seat, and that firm seat made the lance charge possible, so both statements are correct.

LOFAR, the Low Frequency Array, is a huge radio telescope network built by ASTRON in the Netherlands, described as the largest and most sensitive radio telescope working at low frequencies.

Lying between India and Sri Lanka off Tamil Nadu, it is built around a chain of 21 small islands with estuaries, beaches, coral reefs, salt marshes, seagrass beds and mangroves.

The Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project is built on the Godavari river in Telangana and is often described as the world's largest multi-stage lift irrigation scheme.

Sir Benegal Narsing Rau was appointed Constitutional Adviser to the Constituent Assembly and prepared its first draft of the Constitution in October 1947.

Soap micelles are large enough to scatter the light passing through the solution, and this scattering makes soapy water look cloudy.

Shortughai lay close to the Badakhshan mines of north-eastern Afghanistan, the best-known ancient source of the blue stone lapis lazuli.

Both statements describe the 1905 Revolution in Russia correctly. On 22 January 1905 (9 January by the old Russian calendar), workers led by Father Gapon marched peacefully to the Winter Palace in St Petersburg with a petition to the Tsar.

Both statements match the standard description of these two millets in Indian geography. Bajra (pearl millet) is a hardy crop of dry areas.

Kaveri is the turbofan aero-engine developed by the Gas Turbine Research Establishment of DRDO in Bengaluru. The Kaveri project began in the late 1980s to power the Light Combat Aircraft Tejas.

Kanaklata Barua was shot dead on 20 September 1942 while leading a procession during the Quit India Movement in Assam.

Ibn Battuta, who served under Muhammad bin Tughlaq, described a two-part postal system in which statements 1, 2 and 4 hold.

Kandla Port in the Kutch district of Gujarat was renamed Deendayal Port in 2017 after Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya. Kandla was developed in the 1950s on the Gulf of Kutch to replace the trade that India lost when Karachi went to Pakistan at Partition.

For lenses in contact the powers simply add, and here they are +2 D and +4 D. The power of a lens is the reciprocal of its focal length in metres, P = 1/f, and its unit is the dioptre.

Jyotirao Phule founded the Satyashodhak Samaj in Pune on 24 September 1873. The Samaj worked for the rights of the lower castes, women and peasants, and rejected the authority of priests and the caste hierarchy.

An electric generator converts mechanical energy into electrical energy and so produces electric current. A generator works on electromagnetic induction, discovered by Michael Faraday in 1831.

With an average density of about 5.51 grams per cubic centimetre, Earth is the densest planet of the solar system.

The urinary bladder is a hollow muscular sac made of smooth muscle and a stretchable lining; it has no cartilage.

The Pacific Plate is one of the seven major lithospheric plates and the largest of them all. The earth's lithosphere is broken into rigid plates that move over the softer asthenosphere.

The Karachi session of March 1931 adopted the resolution on Fundamental Rights and National Economic Programme, which gave the State this role.

The Venetian merchant Nicolo de Conti visited Vijayanagara around 1420, during the reign of Deva Raya I. Conti travelled widely in Asia and later told his story to the papal secretary Poggio Bracciolini, who wrote it down in Latin.

Olympe de Gouges wrote this in her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen in 1791. Olympe de Gouges was a French writer and one of the most active women of the French Revolution.

Koradi Thermal Power Station stands at Koradi, a few kilometres north of Nagpur city in Maharashtra. The plant is run by MAHAGENCO, the Maharashtra State Power Generation Company, and burns coal from the mines of the Vidarbha region.

Two miscible liquids that form a homogeneous mixture are separated by distillation, which uses the difference in their boiling points.

The Luddites demanded a minimum wage and the right to form trade unions, while they opposed machinery that took away their work.

In his famous Railway Minute of 1853, Governor-General Lord Dalhousie argued for a network of trunk railway lines, stressing their value for moving troops quickly.

These are the words of the Nobel committee's citation for Jimmy Carter, who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.

The Palar and the Pennar rise on the Karnataka plateau and flow east into the Bay of Bengal, while the Periyar and the Kalinadi flow west into the Arabian Sea.